Straw Everywhere!

So, I was checking out the weather forecast yesterday evening and noticed that we were going to have a fairly cold overnight temperature and was a bit concerned that there would be a frost (it's been freaky cold enough!). After having lost my last lot of beans a month ago and now that the new beans have sprouted and the old ones have new growth I didn't really want to risk it again - not to mention my huge potato plants and corn all coming along nicely (the other greenery seems to be pretty hardy against the cold and survived before...). I decided to bring down the straw bale that I have for the chickens nesting box and started to spread it all around. What a peaceful, still night it was. WELL - of course today it's all windy and blowing it all around! What a mess. So this morning I went down (no frost afterall) and pulled away the straw and tucked it around the plants as a mulch. I suppose it follows that I have an organic-looking no-work yard with things all over the place. I'm now claiming to follow the Fukuoka method LOL (I was doing my homework last night for my course and we were covering the history of organic horticulture) who advocates "no tillage, no fertilizer, no pesticides, no weeding, and no pruning"